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@ Free Stuff: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/30/free.stuff4.idg/
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# LAND OF THE LIVING DEAD - Bohemian vampires rise again... and again... and
again... (Prague Post) Time and again, archeologists working in the Czech
Republic come across what they believe are vampire graves. The skeletons
they find have been mutilated using methods that, in the superstition-
fueled middle ages, were thought to destroy the suckers once and for all.
Bodies were exhumed, stakes driven, limbs severed, bones broken. Today
it may seem like overkill. But when vampires stalked the land, it was
better to be safe than sorry. http://www.praguepost.cz/feat032900a.html
# Bounty on Indian Scalps to Be Reconsidered. HALIFAX (Reuters) Canada will
consider striking down a 244-year-old provincial law that offers hunters
a bounty for Indian scalps, following complaints by native groups. Bounty
on Realtors remains: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-indians
: Have you killed any non/sub/super-humans lately? Would you prefer extinct-
ion for vampires, Indians, bears, aliens, cockroaches, atheists, skaters? Do
you have a strategy for escaping extinction? Is anyone hunting you? Why not?
# Escaped German Polar Bears Killed: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608461
# Earth Needs 10 Million Years To Recover From A Mass Extinction - in your
case, maybe longer: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329080536.htm
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# Nun Held in Probe of Fellow Nun's Murder. BOGOTA (Reuters) Police detained
a Colombian nun on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a fellow nun
whose burned & mutilated body was found dumped on a highway outside Bogota
late last year. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-nun
@ The Atheism Web: http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/orgs.html
# Silence, Celibacy Before Death: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608465
# 'Summer Time' Ruins Sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-time
# Fanatical Cult - Silent Death: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608340
@ 'Dear Police Officer...' I don't want to kill you. I don't even want to
wound you. But I must. http://www.sightings.com/general/dearpolice.htm
: Has your (non)belief system driven you to kill/kiss/klone anybody lately?
Do you worship death and call it life, and/or vice-versa, and/or something
else entirely? Is your life enhanced/diminished/empowered by (non)beliefs?
# Hippys Rule: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_695000/695976.stm
@ We Owe All To Hippies: http://members.aye.net/~hippie/hippie/special_.htm
@ Grateful Dead Lyric Finder: http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/intro.htm
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# Locust Forced To Watch Star Wars (Press Assn) A locust has been made to
watch battle scenes from the movie Star Wars to help scientists from
Newcastle University develop a new collision avoidance system for cars.
www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/technology/pa_tech_20000329203000_2.txt
# BUGS BEHIND THE WHEEL: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223238.html
# Rover, Over and Over: Here Comes Pet Cloning - Genetic Savings & Clone
will preserve your pet's DNA for the day when it can be used to make a
copy. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00329c.htm
: Are there limits to what is acceptable in biotech research? Have you tor-
tured any bugs lately - physically/mentally/spiritually? Have you enhanced/
diminished any animals/plants/people/aliens/ideas? Are you driven by demons?
# EU To Speed Clone Patents: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608935
# US To Overhaul Net Patents: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9609107
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# Australia now a 'GM laboratory.' CANBERRA - Australia has become an inter-
national laboratory for the development of genetically modified food crops
a British farming expert warned yesterday. Enhanced wallabies shouted him
down, spat: http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000331/A40298-2000Mar30.html
@ Who has saved more human lives than anyone else in history? Despite his
Nobel Peace Prize, you may never have heard of Norman Borlaug. Try GREEN
REVOLUTION then: http://www.reason.com/0004/fe.rb.billions.html
: Should humanity be fed? Why? How? Will food shortages, environmental degr-
adation, lack of quality-of-life, be sufficient motivation for humanity to
leave Earth and conquer the universe? Can humanity meet the challenge? How?
# FORMIDABLE FROTH - The GM beer that can keep its head while you lose yours
- Oz culture threatened: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223237.html
# CRISP AND DRY - Can chemical engineers give us healthier French fries? Is
that what we really want? http://newscientist.com/news/news_223235.html
# Feed the world - Could GM rice put a stop to food shortages and help curb
global warming? Really? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223230.html
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Sex-A-Rama:
@ Every S&M wannabe <http://www.sexuality.org/bdsm.html> has handcuffs, but
only the most dedicated freaks have <http://www.blacksteel.com/hcs.html>
gigantic, online collections. Now see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/
@ What's wrong with being a sex object? asks 78-year-old Helen Gurley Brown.
"At least it means men want to go to bed with you" - and it's better than
loneliness: http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?f=000323/240035
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women
of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained
thirty-five for years." --Oscar Wilde
# THE XX FILES - A choice of chromosomes may help women live longer than
men. I'll take 3 more: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223234.html
# The genetics of aging: New study says cell division errors may be the
common link. Get fixed: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9609472
# HANDY HINTS - Can a person's fingers reveal their sexual orientation?
Pull my finger: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223251.html
@ Girls who dream of being the erotic project of an older man, said Colette,
have an "ugly desire which they expiate by fulfilling" - which doesn't
bother the older men much: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n06/cast2206.htm
: Are you young/old, non/sexual, un/wanted, implanted, mind-controlled? Are
you driven/repulsed by sex, violence, power, possessions, images, robotics?
Will teledildonics assure your immortality? Will that be satisfactory? How?
@ Touchy, tormented, violent, and greedy for human warmth, Arthur Koestler
was less a user than an abuser -- of women, alcohol, cars, drugs, and
ideas: http://www.thenation.com/issue/000410/0410leonard.shtml
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"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they
say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind,
just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals." --Oscar Wilde
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